Required Reading

• Dietrich Orlow, A History of Modern Germany, pp. 308-320 (CE).
• Charles Maier, ‘Chapter 1: Losing Faith’, Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany (Princeton UP, 1997), pp. 22-58 (CE).
• Film: The Lives of Others (Available in Short Loan at the Library)
  

Suggested Reading:

• Timothy Garton Ash, The File: A Personal History (Vintage Books, 1998).
• Konrad Jarausch, ‘1968 and 1989: Caesuras, Comparisons, and Connections’, in 1968: The World Transformed: 461-78.
• Hans Joas and Martin Kohli (eds.), Der Zusammenbruch der DDR. Soziologische Analysen (Suhrkamp, 1993)
• Charles Schüddekopft (ed.), Wir sind das Volk. Flugschriften, Aufrufe und Texte einer deutschen Revolution (Reinbek, 1990)
• John Torpey, Intellectuals, Socialism, and Dissent: The East German Opposition and Its Legacies (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1995).